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Counter-IED Report Newsletter

17 April 2026 | Issue 379 |  www.counteriedreport.com

LATEST NEWS

India: 200kg bomb found In Jharkhand’s Swarnarekha river

 

Nigeria: Police foil bomb attack in Akure, arrest six suspects with IED materials

 

Iran: IED explosion in central Tehran

 

Nigeria: Army raids IPOB/ESN strongholds, busts kidnapping network, recovers IEDs

 

Somalia: Joint offensive with Jubaland units kills 27 Al-Shabaab militants

 

Afghanistan: Saving lives in Helmand’s most conflict-affected communities

 

Azerbaijan: Mine explosion in Fuzuli kills ANAMA employee

 

New York: Soldiers test new technology at Fort Drum training exercise

 

Ukraine: Police detain two young men suspected of terrorist attack in Brovary

 

Lebanon: Hezbollah unveils ‘hard-to-detect’ drone


Myanmar: 5 civilians injured in IED explosion in Tanintharyi Reg

 

EOD Mobile Unit 12, Royal Canadian Navy Strengthen Partnership in Halifax

Brazil: Explosive device found on Copacabana

 

Nigeria: Commanding officer, six soldiers killed in IED explosion


Royal Navy makes Pitcairn Island safe during explosive visit

 

UK: More than 30 smoke mortars destroyed by Army in Powys

 

Lithuania: Trilateral bomb disposal drills begin in Klaipėda

 

Lebanon: Hezbollah deploying FPV explosive drones against IDF  

Ukraine: Bomb disposal experts destroy over 40 WWII munitions in Kharkiv region

 

Finland: Controlled explosion carried out on drone warhead in municipality of Iitti

 

India: 21 bunkers flattened, 13 IEDs seized by security forces


Northern Ireland: North Belfast suspicious object declared ‘elaborate hoax’


West Bank: IDF confiscates 200 pipe bombs and numerous IEDs


UK: Unexploded WW2 bomb detonated in controlled explosion at Mansel Park, Southampton

India: 5 officials injured in crude bomb explosion


California: Suspect arrested after incendiary device thrown at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home

 

US military starts removing mines from Strait of Hormuz

 

Bangladesh: IEDs, anti-personnel mines detected, flammable chemicals seized at Naikhongchhari border

 

New Hampshire: Webster man pleading guilty to building, setting off pipe bombs

 

Nigeria: Jihadists kill army general and soldiers in attack on Borno state base

 

UK: Man accused of leading Al-Shabaab activities charged with terror offences

 

Nigeria: North-East recorded nearly 2,000 IED explosions in seven years

 

Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces recover, defuse IED

 

Alberta: Homemade bomb containing screws discovered during Sherwood Park arrest

 

RFI: Explosive Hazard Detection with Automated Target Recognition (ATR)

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